“It’s an amazing feeling,” said senior Emma Lukasiewicz, sixth seat of the first varsity eight. “As a senior, it’s so exciting after a lot of hard work but a lot of good improvement, so to finally see the results pay off is a huge gain for the program. To sweep all of the varsity events, it’s just so exciting to see the improvements that our program has made, and every girl on this team deserves this success.”

The boat held its own against the Tigers in the first half of the race before finding its rhythm and stroking to an open-water lead in the third 500.

“Nothing’s really certain, but around the 1,000 we had a pretty comfortable distance, but we definitely just wanted to keep pushing it out,” Lukasiewicz said. “You never know when a crew’s going to make a move.”

The third varsity four started the streak early, with the Black and White crew outstripping the rest of the field by over 10 seconds.

After the novice eight fell to Wisconsin’s crew by a little over a minute in the grand final, the second varsity eight found the top of the medal stand again. The crew rowed the course in 7:34.4, edging the Badgers’ boat by less than two seconds.

—Staff writer Samantha Lin can be reached at samanthalin@college.harvard.edu. Follow her on Twitter @linsamnity.